I just installed ubuntu 12.04 (command line version) on an old machine (athlon 1,2 GHz, 1GB RAM, [SiS] 65x/M650/740 graphics). When I boot the screen turns black after the BIOS messages. Even grub doesn't appear.
The system reboots if I press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Ctrl+Alt+F2... doesn't bring my to any tty.
However I can access the machine via ssh (I installed it in expert mode and selected open-ssh-server during installation).
In spite of the black screen I tried to type in blind my username and password. Then I did touch test and I was able to verify via ssh that this created a file named test.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Edit:
I insalled xinit and started blind startx but there was no X session, only a black screen. However I can verify via ssh that X was running.
Here is my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
Here is my dmesg:
Here is my syslog:
Here is the output of lsmod:
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I finally solved the problem completely by commenting out the line GRUB_TERMINAL=console in /etc/defaults/grub and doing sudo update-grub and sudo reboot.
Ctrl+alt+F7 is the means to switch to the standard GUI that I have seen. If that fails review what version you installed and ensure you wrote the desktop version, not the server (headless) version.
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